I should like to say that I left off smoking because I considered it a mean form of slavery, to be condemned for moral as well as physical reasons; but though I see the folly of smoking clearly now, I was blind to it for some months after I had smoked my last pipe. I gave up my most delightful solace, as I regarded it, for no other reason than that the lady who was willing to fling herself away on me said that I must choose between it and her.

I don’t want to go to school and learn solemn things. I don’t want to be a man.

After a time he fell asleep, and some unsteady fairies had to climb over him on their way home from an orgy.

David tells me that fairies never say 'We feel happy': what they say is, 'We feel dancey'.

His lordship may compel us to be equal upstairs, but there will never be equality in the servants' hall.

Some day,' said Smee, 'the clock will run down, and then he'll get you.' Hook wetted his dry lips, 'Aye,' he said, 'that's the fear that haunts me.

I don't want to go to school and learn solemn things.